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  • 16
  • Jan
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Indoor Activities for Your Elderly Loved One to Enjoy During Winter

If you have an elderly parent or loved one, you know how they often tend to get bored during the day if they don’t have any activities planned. During the summer, there are plenty of outdoor activities to participate in with your loved one, but things get a bit more difficult during the winter. They […]
  • 9
  • Jan
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Maintaining Dignity for Someone with Dementia

When you’re the caregiver for a loved one with dementia, you face challenges far beyond the day-to-day reality of providing physical care. Your loved one relies on you for so much support that it can be easy to think of him or her as a child as you step into a protective, parental role. It’s […]
  • 2
  • Jan
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Quick and Nutritious Meals that Caregivers Need in Their Back Pocket

It’s important for seniors to maintain a healthy diet, and it can sometimes be challenging for caregivers to facilitate this. As people age, a healthy immune system is crucial, and this requires a diet full of whole foods and rich in nutrients. If you’re taking care of your elderly parent, it can be difficult to […]
  • 18
  • Dec
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Winter Activities with Alzheimer’s Patients

For someone with Alzheimer’s, keeping the mind active is important. Continuing to participate in activities they’ve enjoyed in the past can help people with Alzheimer’s by stirring up memories, fostering emotional connections, making them feel more engaged, encouraging self-expression, and even reducing the anxiety and irritability that often goes along with Alzheimer’s. Which activities are […]
  • 4
  • Dec
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7 Things to Keep in Your Caregiving Closet

If you’re responsible for the care of an elderly person, you know that it’s important to be organized and prepared, always expecting the unexpected. It’s also important to have on hand the things you may need because it’s not always easy to get to a store on short notice. Here’s a helpful list, so that […]
  • 20
  • Nov
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How to Become a Caregiver for a Parent

As time goes by, familial roles often reverse, and adult children find themselves caring for the parents who used to be the caregivers. Sometimes this transition is difficult, especially if you find yourself in the position of trying to raise a family while caring for an elderly parent. There are no set guidelines for how […]
  • 7
  • Nov
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Dementia vs. Alzheimer’s

Often, people use the terms dementia and Alzheimer’s interchangeably, but they’re not the same thing. The confusion is understandable because they’re closely related, but if you’re beginning to face dementia in an elderly parent, it’s important to understand the difference. The easiest way to look at the two terms is by understanding that dementia is […]
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  • Oct
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5 Winter Nutrition Suggestions for Seniors

It’s always important for seniors to maintain a healthy diet, but in the winter it’s even more crucial. Cold and flu season is hard on everyone, but older people are much more vulnerable to life-threatening illness. Good nutrition helps boost the immune system, which makes a person less likely to become ill, and more likely […]
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  • Oct
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How to Reduce or Prevent Age-Related Muscle Loss

Muscle loss can begin to occur in your 30s, so by the time you reach your senior years it can become quite a serious issue. Losing muscle mass and function is a natural process called sarcopenia. Around the age of 75, that muscle loss starts to happen faster. The good news is that there are […]
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  • Sep
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Fall Prevention Tips for Seniors

For older Americans, falls are a serious safety matter. Falls are the #1 cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries for the elderly. Each year, one in four Americans over the age of 65 experiences a fall. Those falls account for 2.8 million injuries, 800,000 hospitalizations, and more than 25,000 deaths every year. For all […]